"It official: The algae bloom that covered Lake Erie this past summer was the biggest and baddest ever recorded.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that finding today, saying this past summer’s toxic-algae bloom was more severe even than the 2011 bloom, which stretched along the shoreline from Toledo to Cleveland.

This past summer’s bloom was bigger, though. As it sprawled toward Cleveland, it migrated toward the center of Erie rather than sticking to the coast."
 
Laura Arenschield reports for the Columbus Dispatch November 10, 2015. [2]